The Problem of God's Self-Communication: A Christological Reading of the Qur'an - Couverture souple

Dogan, Hüseyin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6258811019 ISBN 13 : 9786258811018

Editeur : Huseyİn Dogan, 2026

Synopsis

The God Spoke - and from the echo came not truth but religions. With this unsettling diagnosis begins Hüseyin Dogan's profound inquiry into perhaps the oldest dilemma of every revealed religion: How can the infinite be contained within the finite? How can the transcendent be put into language without shattering? The Problem of Divine Self-Communication is a Christological reading of the Qur'an that refuses to align with any familiar camp. The book does not deify Jesus - but neither does it deny why he stands so unshakably at the center. It does not reject scripture - but neither does it ignore the limits of the word. Between God's insistence on speaking and the endless unraveling of speech, Dogan traces an arc reaching from Nicaea to the Qur'an, from Heraclitus and Philo to the Himyarite inscription. At its center lies a philological voyage of discovery. Why does the Basmala carry two attributes - al-Räm¿n and al-Rä¿m - if both merely mean "merciful"? Dogan shows that this is not a matter of degree but of two distinct ontological levels: al-Räm¿n as the foundational source, reserved for God alone; al-Rä¿m as action realized in flux, attributable to humans as well. Archaeological evidence from pre-Islamic South Arabia - including inscriptions bearing the formula "al-Räm¿n and His Son the Messiah" - adds a startling historical depth to this reading. From here the book unfolds a dense web of trails: the birth of the Logos from the grand synthesis of Heraclitus, the Stoa, and Philo; the dilemma of H¿ and All¿h; the Christological correspondences of God's attributes; the Trinity and Taw¿¿d seen as two discourses of a single truth. Dogan reads ¿¿riq, al-Q¿ri¿a, and al-Isr¿¿ as hidden addresses, deciphers the "Ul¿ Code," and enters perhaps the most enigmatic problem of Qur'anic scholarship - the ¿ur¿f al-muqä¿äa, the mysterious letters at the openings of certain S¿ras - an equation with fourteen unknowns, boldly associated with the fourteen Apostles. Yet the text never loses itself in speculation. Every thesis rests on a close reading of the Arabic phrasing, on the etymology of the Semitic languages, and on the history of exegesis - from al-Zamakhshar¿ and al-R¿z¿ to modern scholarship. The story of Moses and al-Khi¿r, the distinction between mu¿kam and mutash¿bih, the oscillation between tanz¿h and tashb¿h: the concern is always only the question of how meaning shifts and who holds authority over it. Dogan writes a book that is neither apologetic nor polemical. He passes no judgment on God, but dismantles the voices that rise in God's name. His style is at once literary and precise - a mode of thought that places encounter ahead of explanation, existence above decision. It is a bold, erudite, and deeply original work for anyone drawn to comparative religion, Qur'anic exegesis, early Christology, and the philosophy of language - and for every reader willing to pursue a question that has gone unrested for fifteen centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Huseyİn Dogan
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6258811019
• ISBN 13: 9786258811018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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